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Ever since he completed his term as Punjab governor in 2015, Shivraj Patil has been leading a quiet life. He is barely seen or heard though he is spotted occasionally at Delhi’s India International Centre. But he was pulled out of…

South Asian Women in Media (India) condemns the attack on Meghalaya Journalist and Editor of the Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim, whose home was targeted by unidentified assailants in Shillong with a petrol bomb on April 17th. While it is…

Change often comes unannounced, and the government’s foreign policy moves over the past few months represent an unannounced but profound shift in its thinking about the neighbourhood. This could change the course of Prime Minister Narendra…

As reports emerge that Geo News has been taken off air in various areas across the country, State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has categorically denied that her ministry has issued any directives for the…

By Radhika Ramaseshan The next generation of assorted poster boys and girls speaks up unblushingly for the communal agenda of the RSS and BJP Locket Chatterjee, Bengali cinema’s winsome star, hardly qualified to march on the frontline of…

As India stoops to conquer Nepal by laying out the red carpet for the visit of prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli later this week, it is indicating a new self-awareness that its foreign policy missteps have allowed China to gain ground in the…

The most important image of women in the media was their “non-image”: Margaret Gallagher’s succinct formulation dating back to 1981 inspired some of us in journalism to look a little closer at what was then termed as “women’s representation…

The Sri Lankan government has imposed an island-wide emergency in the wake of anti-Muslim violence in Kandy, a city in the central highlands, on March 4-5, and in Ampara, a district with a near equal population of Muslims and…

As it became clear that the Samajwadi Party was heading to victory in the bye-elections in Uttar Pradesh and the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar, Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted to congratulate the winners, claiming the result showed…

By Neha Dixit Shamli (Uttar Pradesh): On October 8, 2017, the day Furquan showed up unexpectedly at his home, his sons, aged 12 and 10, could not recognise him. They hadn’t seen him in seven years as he had been locked up in the…